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11 July 2008

Criminal Law Fieldwork

Over at Concurring Opinions Max Miner has an interesting post about an old book, Burglars on the Job (by Richard T. Wright and Scott Decker). Miner's post emphasizes the authors' methodology:

"Rather than interviewing incarcerated burglars, they set out to find
active burglars in the community. They drew on a network of people who
they believed were likely to know criminals. Interviewees would
introduce them to burglars who in turn would introduce them to other
burglars. This approach introduces a selection effect, of course, but
avoids the obvious selection bias arising from only interviewing
burglars in prison."

Given the research question and real world limitations, I concede that some form of selection effect is perhaps inevitable. I am not sure, however, which injects more bias, only that different flavors of bias arise.

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Given the research question and real world limitations, I concede that some form of selection effect is perhaps inevitable. I am not sure, however, which injects more bias, only that different flavors of bias arise